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The original teleplay that became the classic Star Trek episode, with an expanded introductory essay by Harlan Ellison, The City on the Edge of Forever has been surrounded by controversy since the airing of an "eviscerated" version - which subsequently has been voted the most beloved episode in the series' history. In its original form, The City on the Edge of Forever won the 1966-67 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Teleplay. As aired, it won the 1967 Hugo Award.
The City on the Edge of Forever is, at its most basic, a poignant love story. Ellison takes the listener on a breathtaking trip through space and time, from the future all the way back to 1930s America. In this harrowing journey, Kirk and Spock race to apprehend a renegade criminal and restore the order of the universe. It is here that Kirk faces his ultimate dilemma: a choice between the universe - and his one true love.
This edition makes available the astonishing teleplay as Ellison intended it to be aired. The author's introductory essay reveals all of the details of what Ellison describes as a "fatally inept treatment" of his creative work. Was he unjustly edited, unjustly accused, and unjustly treated?
For a full cast/character list and table of contents, please visit www.SkyboatMedia.com.
©1975 Harlan Ellison. © 1995 by the Kilimanjaro Corporation. Afterwords © 1995 and 2016 by the authors (P)2016 Skyboat Media, Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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A fascinating look at what could have been.
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
The real reading starts in chapter 5.
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You aren't buying this for what you think you are buying it for...
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But now I remember, and having listened to this entrancing and eloquently narrated account of the truth about the appalling treatment of his original (and brilliant) script for "The City on the Edge of Forever," I can well understand some of the inspired mordancy of his reviews of television shows no more in the league of his own "dangerous visions," than Danielle Steel is in the league of James Joyce -- which is not even to insult Danielle Steel, because it was never her intent to produce timeless works of genius. Ellison, IMHO, produced virtually nothing else.
This is the best audio book to which I've listened in perhaps two years.
I Have Two Ears and I Must Applaud
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Star Trek was not worthy of Ellison
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Interesting twist
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If you could sum up The City on the Edge of Forever in three words, what would they be?
Passionate, morally complex.What other book might you compare The City on the Edge of Forever to and why?
None. Harlan Ellison is one of a kind.Which scene was your favorite?
When Spock at the end tells Kirk that "No woman was ever loved as much Jim, because no woman was ever offered the universe for love."If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
Better then the original aired episode, buy your ticket now!Any additional comments?
Enjoyed so much about this audio book:Ellison reading his own delightfully candid introduction.
The full cast giving life to the Award Winning Teleplay.
Mostly it's just having this treasure on audio.
An absolute joy to listen to!
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
if there is one thing Harlan Ellison is good
at, it's being pissed off.
I own the neigh definitive Ellison collection. He is a genius.
He's hard core.
Passionate.
Driven.
Rebellious.
Ellison seems a man perpetually on a mission.
I've listened to him read his own work,
**NO ONE ELSE SHOULD READ ELLISON BUT ELLISON.**
enjoyed the result of his consult in Babylon 5, and faithfully watched ALL of the Sci-fi Channel's (that's SCI-FI, not sy-fy) Sci-Fi Buzz commentaries.
Preface to sayng...he is now older than dirt...and pissed off to an order of magnitude appropriate to time for said experiences in culminated in this iconic brand of pissed-off-ed-ness.
This missive is drowning in epic pissed-off-ed-ness.
To call this a "rant" would be to diminish the intensity of the epic pissed-off-ed-ness for which Ellison is known.
From his first statement read himself, it is evident, this has been a point of contention. ... for a VERY long time.
1966 was a fair piece ago.
This reader was but 7 years of age... and Star Trek was the best thing on television, and City on the Edge of Forever was the best of the best.
That's a long time to be ticked...and in his intro, it ALL comes boiling over.
Couldn't he just give us the facts and story without the tirade?
Just the info without ripping the collective guilty to shreds in bloody spectacle of enraged verbosity?
If he did, it wouldn't be Ellison.
...and we wouldn't care to read / listen to it.
It's a long time to hold the grudge.
Today, 30 years after the fact, Ellison is older than dirt and still above it.
His diction is slurry.
His voice is gravel.
His complaint is complete.
His voice, from the immutable edge, is rapier sharp.
And the bitterness is deadly.
if you REALLY want to know, here are the facts.
If you haven't read it. (and if you haven't Ellison's original script for City on the Edge of Forever, how can you call yourself a Trekkie?) here it is.
If you like bonuses like alternate versions and endings, here ya go.
WARNING!
The facts are delivered with BITE.
The expletives and blasphemy are exactly what any Ellison reader...even the reader of but a single tale... will be expecting.
I didn't say "like", but you know it's coming.
I won't bid you, "gentle reader", a good read / listen, though I doub'r you will ever forget even a single encounter with Ellison.
I will tell you the roller-coaster has no safety belts or bars!
I will tell you to hold on for your life!!!
THIS IS ELLISON, AND HE NEVER, EVER, HOLDS BACK.
Anything less would not be Harlan Ellison.
Anything less would not be worth the effort.
This, for better and worse, is the master of wit, and edge, and words.
As salty as ever and more: Harlan Ellison.
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5 Stars Really? for this belly full of kavetching?
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Glad I Read It. Holly wired is Nuts
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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
I would recommend this book to Startrek efficinato.As I was born in 1960, you could almost say I was weened on Startrek. "The city on the edge of forever" was certainly one of my favourates, in the top five. Until now, I have never read any of the so called inside Startrek books. My thoughts were, let the stories rest on their own. I have never been the look behind the curten kind of guy. I bought and downloaded this book because I thought it was simply a version of the story adapted to audio book, guess I didn't read the description and comments.
Normally if it is Startrek, I just buy it.
Yes I have heard before that Jean Rodinbary was hard to get along with so I thought this book would be another example of the same. I guess if enough people are saying simular things, you start to think, maybe there is a fire under all that smoke.
As per the original scripts described in this book, I find myself wishing that version had been made. I don't know if it could have been done well as an hour show though. Could the additional characters been fleshed out enough? Would there have been enough time to explain the background of leveck... If not, perhaps it could have been made into a 2 part special for example. Is it possible that Jean thought that version of the story couldn't be sold tto the people that funded Startrek? Did they not want a strong character in yelman Rand? Was it not possible to put that mouch story into an hour show? Would it have required too mouch in the way of special effects than were possible at the time (1966)?
If so, why not just say so instead of this diatribe?
In any event, the book was a good read if not a pleasent one.
Alan
Who was your favorite character and why?
Hay, it's Startrek. For this episode it would have to be Edith Keyler.What about the narrators’s performance did you like?
This book had many narrators.City on the edge of forever - extendedIf you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
Knooks can be nasty too.Any additional comments?
I guess I've said it already, I wish this version had been made.Perhaps we want our stories to be rapped up in a neet pacage most of the time with few complecations. Once in a while it would be nice to have story archs cary on or at least referenced. Characters would matter. Stories would have more impact.
I guess those are my comments having never written a book, screen play, script not even a tiny poem, ok, maybe the aud limeric or quatrain in high school.
Beter to have loved and lossed?
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